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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Bug in library routine getenv()
Message-ID: <2494@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 10-May-87 13:34:40 EDT
Article-I.D.: ncoast.2494
Posted: Sun May 10 13:34:40 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 13-May-87 05:00:07 EDT
References: <3860@cae780.TEK.COM> <868@mimir.dmt.oz>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
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Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
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As quoted from <868@mimir.dmt.oz> by dcm@mimir.dmt.oz (Dennis Mills):
+---------------
| in article <3860@cae780.TEK.COM>, hubble@cae780.TEK.COM (Larry Hubble) says:
| > 
| > I believe there is also a bug in the
| > library routine strncpy -- it doesn't null terminate the string if the string
| > to copy is really longer that "n" characters.
| 
| This is the correct documented behaviour of 'strncpy'.
+---------------

I can see where he would get confised, though; System V documents it as
*always* null-terminating the string.  No idea how V7 does it.  System III
and Xenix don't say one way or the other.

++Brando
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